Improvement in packing-boxes



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A. GREGG.

"Improvement in Packing. Boxes.

STATES PATENT EFECE.

ALEXANDER GREGG, OF WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS.

`lmtfnovlaminvr IN PACKING-Boxes.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 115,306, dated May 30, 1871.

` Toallpersons -to whom these presents may come:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER GEEGG, of

i Watertown, of the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have made a new and usefulinvention having reference to Packing- Boxes; and do hereby 'declare the same to be fully described in` the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawing,

of which- Figure 1 is a vertical sectionof a packingbox as made or provided with my invention,

` whichin the main consists of -a packing-box having slits in its cover, and two or other suitablenumber of lexiblefclamps iixedto and projecting upward from the opposite sides or ends of the body of the box, and to` extend through the said slits of the cover, and'be bent down upon the cover so as to hold it to the body. Fig. 2 is` a front view, and Fig. 3 a vertical section, of one of the plate-metal clamps of the box.

In such drawing, A denotes the body, and

y B the cover oi:` an ordinary packing-box made of pasteboard and paper, such boxes being in common use among manufacturers and dealers in various goods or wares. Metallic-plate clasps C C, formed as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, areiixed to the two opposite ends of the'body,

and extend above them and go through slots a a. madethrough the cover or its top b. 0n bendingdown uponthe said top of the cover .the parts of the clamps that may proj ect above it,`they will serve to confine` the cover to the body, and` thereby save the necessity of using 1 twine or cords togo around the box in order n to hold the lcover in place.

Itis well known among manufacturers and .dealers in small wares that it is a great desideratum to avoid the use of twine, cords, or bands in the fastening of the covers to the bodies' of packing-boxes, and `this is not only on account ofthe time and material required in accomplishing such, but the difficulty frequently experienced and the time lost in untying the knots." Besides, thereis great danger I `of the twine being broken or becoming untied during transit of the 'package-box from one place to another or while being handled. The clasps, arranged and applied as described to hold its cover in place, become'a certain means of effecting the desired end, and are easily manipulated, whether to fasten or unfasten the cover relatively to the boxbody. n

rlhe clasp may be of sheet metal, provided with spurs or with triangular portions c c, ex-

tended lfrom the rest of it to go through the end or side of the box. and be bent down Vso as to confinethe clamp to the said end. For the purpose I usually make use of tinned plateiron or thin brass-plate or other proper material.

I make no claim to the improvement in fruitboxes described and represented in the United States patent No. 68,943, dated September 17,

1867, and granted to E. F. Brown, as'signeeof the inventor, Israel F. Brown. Such fruitbox has no cover provided with slits for receipt ofthe clamps, which, as employed in such covered, in a measure, by'the sides of the cov-V er when such cover is in place in the box.

I therefore claim y The packin g-box as having the metallic fastening-clasps arranged with and applied to the box-body and the cover thereof, in manner as hereinbeforedescribed, and as shown in accompanying drawing.r

` ALEXANDER VGrREGrG.

Witnesses: R. H. EDDY, S. N. PIPER. 

